Commercial
New joint venture already recruiting and competing
Loss adjusters McLarens Young International and Quest Gates have set up a new joint venture to tende...
Appointment cards
Distributed to the patients from various departments in the hospital but predominately from outpatie...
Saga launches insurance
Saga has launched annual travel insurance to cater for the increasing number of over-50s in the UK w...
RSA offers Profin lines to SMEs
Royal and Sun Alliance has packaged a number of its professional and financial risks products into i...
Post treatment advice cards
Distributed to patients by nursing staff from the A&E unit. Solicitors will pay between £8000-£30 00...
Mapfre Asistencia acquires broker
Spanish insurer Mapfre Asistencia has acquired a UK broker, adding EUR50m (£33.2m) of premium income...
Towergate buys YIG
The Towergate Partnership has acquired Your Insurance Group (Brokers) as part of a £10m investment t...
Lack of underwriter the only problem at Whiteley
Following on from the recent coverage of the failure of Whiteley Insurance Consultants, I am concern...
Extreme weather warning
By the end of the century, the global insurance market will have to foot an annual bill of $27bn (£1...
Biba advises on managing conflicts of interest
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba) has published its latest ‘Regulatory Update’, which offers guidance to its members on the issue of managing conflicts of interest.
AIG releases Q1 2005 profit statement
American International Group (AIG), which has been in the headlines since October 2004 following allegations of business malpractice from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, has filed its Quarterly Report for the period ending March 31, 2005 with…
Aon opens new 120 strong call centre
Aon formally opened a new call centre in Leicester yesterday - creating 120 jobs - to handle and process applications to the Post Office's travel insurance scheme.
Biba calls for greater terrorism cover on travel insurance
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba) is calling on more travel insurance companies to provide cover against terrorism.
Towergate Partnership makes e-commerce acquisition
The Towergate Partnership has acquired Your Insurance Group (Brokers) (YIG) based in Guildford, Surrey as a part of a £10m investment in developing the Group’s e-commerce capability.
Revios releases 2004 figures
Revios Reinsurance Group has concluded its second full business year with a further substantial increase in earnings.
New team at Singer & Friedlander
Singer & Friedlander Insurance Finance (SFIF) has announced a new team for its Dorking operation.
Highway boss resigns
Highway Insurance this morning announced that Andrew Gibson, chief executive officer, has resigned wi...
NU wins out with major affinity deal
Norwich Union has signed a new 3 year contract to be the sole supplier of payment protection insurance to Littlewoods’ retail catalogue customers.
Spain's Mapfre acquires Bristol-based intermediary
Spanish firm Mapfre Asistencia has acquired Abraxas, the Bristol-based insurance intermediary in the motor sector for £10.5m, reports Anthony Gould.
Taking a different tack
David McMillan, Norwich Union's partnerships director, tells Jonathan Swift why the company is taking a more active approach to affinity
The bright young things
Young achiever of the year, BIA Finalists
Norwich Union launches new insurance
Norwich Union has launched a new engineering insurance offering to complement its existing segmented...
Spitzer: "death of the broker"?
I can obviously appreciate that the Spitzer affair concerned everyone, however, we now seem to be go...
Appointment at Heath Lambert
Broker Heath Lambert has appointed Matthew Bates, right, as sales and development director of HL Nat...